Re: INSTALL and buildprep

2017-02-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Hal! > Hal Murray : > Does buildbot have a crossbuild case? Say building for a Raspberry > Pi on an Intel platform. Yes, but not one that is working. RGDS GARY --- Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E

Re: INSTALL and buildprep

2017-02-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : >e...@thyrsus.com said: >> Right now we have one action (pull all dependencies from the platform's >> package manager) and no switches. What switches and actions need to be >> added? > >show about to be installed files Well, that's a problem - because that set can vary depending on w

Re: ntpclient names

2017-02-23 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Hal! On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 03:41:53 -0800 Hal Murray wrote: > > Our scripts are just for developers and for packagers to get a > > start. > > I think we can do a better job of providing the information that a > packager needs. No argument there. RGDS GARY --

Google+CWI announce SHA1 attack, publishe a collision

2017-02-23 Thread Hal Murray
https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html Today, 10 years after of SHA-1 was first introduced, we are announcing the first practical technique for generating a collision. This represents the culmination of two years of research that sprung from a collaboration

Re: INSTALL and buildprep

2017-02-23 Thread Hal Murray
> tag required packages with the feature that requires them Or maybe only tell me about the packages needed for a specific configuration. There is a chicken/egg problem with waf. It won't configure unless the header files and libraries are available. There is also the cross build area. Tell m

Re: INSTALL and buildprep

2017-02-23 Thread Hal Murray
e...@thyrsus.com said: > Right now we have one action (pull all dependencies from the platform's > package manager) and no switches. What switches and actions need to be > added? show about to be installed files without tools, tools only run only print stuff in a human friendly format neede

Re: INSTALL and buildprep

2017-02-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > There is a tangle in this area, and I think you are the right one to sort it > all out. Agreed, this is definitely an architecture and software-engineering issue and thus right in my wheelhouse. > buildprep is is the tip of an interesting iceberf. It's good since it > contain

Re: ntpclient names

2017-02-23 Thread Hal Murray
> Our scripts are just for developers and for packagers to get a start. I think we can do a better job of providing the information that a packager needs. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists

INSTALL and buildprep

2017-02-23 Thread Hal Murray
There is a tangle in this area, and I think you are the right one to sort it all out. buildprep is is the tip of an interesting iceberf. It's good since it contains some info in a form that is very easy to use. But it's also evil since all the associated comments that used to be in INSTALL h